a row over a meeting between deputy prime minister and the french. coming off the. dialogue of. the u.s. special envoy for venezuela ruled. world leaders trying to find

a solution to the country's political crisis. russia demands the u.s. destroy tomahawk missile launchers drones to help. cold war era arms control treaty about both moscow and washington suspend. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow friday february the welcome to our. top story. is recalling. for consultations amid a furious spot spurred by the actions of italy's deputy prime minister's picking up the story. well this marks a new low in the already rocky relations between france and italy two countries that should be allies the members of the european union and some have described

this latest move by france has being unprecedented i believe it's the first time that france has recalled its ambassador from rome since the second world war when the two countries who are actually at war with each other well this move comes after one of italy's deputy prime ministers luigi dimaio was seen photographed with yellow vests protest is he in france describing the movement on twitter as saying that the winds of change were coming across the alps where the french foreign ministry has hit out at that describing the verbal attacks from italy and saying that those provocations by just too much this is the statement that they were least the most recent interferences constituted additional and an acceptable provocation they violated the respect that is owed to democratic choices made by nation which is

a friend and an ally they violate the respect the democratically and freely elected governments each other and his coat deputy prime minister within the italian government has also been one to hit out france and particular president maccarone recently offering his support to also the yellow best movement. i side with the millions of frenchmen who are complaining about a president who is harming the french people i condemn any acts of hooliganism and violence without exceptions. the minister being european affairs here in france retorted with this france refrains from giving lessons to the tele salvina and to milan should learn to sweep their own doorstep. well the two countries have been out to show this through for some time more recently finding themselves on opposing sides of an international crisis that's happening in venezuela with france amongst

a number of e.u. countries deciding that they will full through their full weight behind the national assembly whose declared himself into a president that we don't mean while it's really decided it would reject that and has remained supporting the democratically elected president maduro for the moment it seems that these relations between france and italy two countries who are neighbors two countries who are part of the european union and two countries who should be strong allies is getting worse and worse. just exploding in one of charlottes points there french president mccone was among a number of european leaders to recognize the venice wheelin opposition leader as the interim president who are not everyone in france is on board with the decision socialist figurehead. compared the backing of one why due to allowing the yellow various leader to take over the least of problems. it's not

a good thing to recognize an adventurer who proclaims himself to be the president of a republic as this gentleman has if we do that yellow vests lead to mr drew a will be president of this republic. well for its part at least interior ministry insists that it doesn't want conflict with france it's not the only spot that's causing ructions between fellow e.u. members however we discuss the underlying issues between e.u. countries with an italian political scientist on journalist the former deputy speaker of belgians parliament but there are many root causes to disgraceful and city between the two capitals these root cause is going to be found. of at least since two thousand and eleven the libyan crisis and they have been. somehow quiet for some time to worry need to leave the government has changed. and so we

the current government has been the very clear the distrust between the government of the italy in the one france is a probable foot showing that. a state cannot accept so what has been done in the other one instead claims that politically correct the you do even you still as a policy that does not lead but follow and basically it follows the lead of the united states even to a number of your e.u. states who more or less agree readout taking the step of recognizing one credo as president and then there are others who do take a stand like it for. avoiding another arms race russia is proposing the us destroy military hardware in an attempt to revive the i n f weapons treaty both moscow and washington earlier suspended their obligation. the cold war deal using

each other of failing to comply but it would cost them a brought me up to speed all of the details. while the russian defense ministry said that the us had been violating the treaty creating conditions for the production of a band by the agreement we're talking about forty one systems designed a tool launch tomahawk cruise missiles were also talking about strike aerial drones as they fall under land based cruise missile category and target missiles as well the defense ministry said that it had summoned the u.s. military a task and hand him a note containing moscow's demands and earlier russia's foreign affairs ministry delivery to no to the u.s. embassy where moscow denied all u.s. accusations that it was ever in breach of the i and after treating but also added that it was the u.s. hasn't fulfilled its obligations within the agreement speaking to the press this

thursday russia's deputy foreign affairs minister said that the decision the u.s. decision to pull out of the treaty may lead to some grave consequences and i had a chance to ask of the official whether he thinks this current situation may lead to a new arms race and this is what he sat. the possibility of a new arms race is a serious topic u.s. documents show that as well as spending huge amounts of money on defense the u.s. aims to dominate all spheres related to the military we will not let the u.s. drug use into an arms race the american scene so they'll succeed in doing that but they haven't so far i think they'll fail this one too. he also said that russia is ready to fight to keep the agreement in tact now the treaty was signed back in ninety eight seven between than the world's nuclear powers the us and the savita

union and now meenie fear that the end of this treaty will lead to dramatic consequences. all acceptable and contradictory but so doctors without borders has the scribe the findings of a new saudi report which claims the humanitarian group was partly to blame for the bombing of one of its own hospitals in yemen in june the organization says the saudi led coalition is attempting to avoid taking full responsibility for the earth strike according to that disputed report and s f first the group business failed to inform the coalition that its cholera treatment center was a medical facility there for the building was considered. a legitimate military target and s.f. however sees it had notified the saudi led coalition of both the newly built hospital at least that doesn't on its emblem the splayed on the roof riyadh has since called the bombing an intended or.

well m.s.f. is now demanding a new investigation not the allegations against it be dropped rights activists sora flounders told us that our strikes on hospitals are totally a lawful. under international humanitarian law medical facilities are protected may not be targeted under any circumstances and it is responsible any of those carrying out the attack and not to the facility itself so even that argument is a harrowing tale and argue it's a complete fraud of course the bombing was carried out by saudi arabia and the

quadrants had been given again and again as mentioned sinn fein terror explains. and this is a time of such a medical facility in medicine stemmed from terror facility being bombed and three years time so on every front it is an outrageous outrageous crime against international humanitarian law. and against the people of myanmar against the people who were all. israel a story we're closely following today a disputes over a major energy pipeline project is threatening to drive a wedge between europe's two powerhouses germany and france nord stream would see russian gas pumped into europe through the baltic sea but friend says a partly making moves to block the project or europe correspondent peter over bricks on the story. fronts could be about to put the cats among the pigeons when

it comes to. the nord stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany it's understood they may be about to vote in favor of changes to the e.u. gas directive now this is according to a story that ran in the german newspaper sooted torches zeitung the paper specifically says that this is a move to target nord stream to they quote unnamed sources in the french government saying we don't want to increase dependency on russia while damaging the interests of e.u. nations like poland and slovakia now there is a vote set for friday on these amendments to the e.u. gas directive these moves would give brussels a lot more sway over projects like north stream two would cause north stream to is funded by a third party russia's gazprom and under these changes to the gas directive that would allow the e.u. commission a lot more access to them it had been thought that germany would vote along with

france the netherlands belgium austria greece and cyprus to say no to these changes however if the french do decide to side with changing the e.u. gas directive well the fact of germany getting its way becomes a lot more shaky the north stream to put gas project is intended to send fifty five billion cubic meters of gas per day from russia into germany germany is set to make a lot of money out of this both german companies and the german state however poland and the baltic states they've been against this since the beginning they say it gives too much power to russia over the e.u.'s energy infrastructure and also that it cuts ukraine out of its important transit role now i'm going to merkel the german chancellor has said in the past that this is not the intention of north stream at all and if you can on the earth do you believe this is an economical project where also for amaj a diversification well so. want ukraine to have continued transit gas traffic but

we believe that north street is no danger to diversification the united states also hates nord stream to washington wants the e.u. to buy liquid natural gas from the united states which incidentally comes in a lot more expensive than piping it directly from russia to the itself in fact the u.s. ambassador to richard grinnell his want german companies about getting involved with north stream saying if they do they could face sanctions and ambassador grinnell put his name to a letter along with the u.s. ambassadors to denmark and the european union saying why they were against north stream to the use dependent on russian gas harbors risks for europe and the west as a whole and puts a soul in the precarious position nordstrom too will do even more than just russian gas russia smites him influence will spread all the way to europe the votes on

friday it could well prove to be a stumbling block in getting the north stream to project off the ground that well certainly neither russia nor the german side thought they were going to be facing. the u.s. government has ruled out negotiations with the venezuelan president nicolas maduro washington special envoy for venezuela elliott abrams urged world powers to communicate only with the country's opposition leader one going to go let's cross live to washington d.c. and artie's rachel blevins hi there rachel bring us up to speed with what the u.s. and other countries have been saying about the political crisis in venice well. ray is so special envoy to venezuela elliott abrams is speaking out today and he's saying that he's actually calling for president maduro to leave venezuela or gather and he's making a really strong statement on

a day when and. number of countries all came together and europe way to talk about political solutions to the crisis in venezuela those countries were made up of both nations and support material and nations as a poor opposition leader one guy joe thought was really interesting thing avram speaking out specifically and calling for madeira to leave the country now he didn't say exactly where he expects material to go but he did make a very bold statement and here is his comment about madeira specifically. instead of trying to accommodate the group through contact groups for dialogue we urge countries to recognize one going to always interim president and join us the time for dialogue with the girl has long. don't fall into a trap the girl has said many times before where there's a fully dialogue rather than a strong message to him it's time to go. so

this comes after the european union's foreign policy chief called for nations to recognize ministerial was national assembly which also comes after the parliament voted to recognize one gordo. in order for the country to overcome the current crisis it is crucial to restore full democracy in all its the mentions including rule of low separation of powers and respect for the constitutional mandate of the country's institutions notably the democratically elected to national assembly. now why joe is claiming that he has met with european officials and as we know the united states is very much on his side the united states has said that all options are on the table regarding their support for and they push for ousting we've also seen countries like russia and china a bit of back to mr o. and said that he should stay as the president and so on top of that now the united

states is claiming that they are not able to get humanitarian aid into venice whale and venezuela has also made the claim that they found some cargo that included weapons and ammunition that were made in the usa so there's a lot of different statements going on here but at the end of the day we really have to ask the question about what the people on. really believe and are actually doing and we've seen protests from both sides. we've seen you media coverage of a lot of those protests thousands of people taking to the streets people that are very passionate about what side it is that they believe in whether or not they actually support the opposition leader or that they are for the united states staying out of their country altogether so here are some comments specifically from the people in caracas. but they don't want to stop it.

this is horrible they want to seize the reaches of the entire planet this is worldwide the oligarch he wants to seize the planet we want peace we want unity would not fascism we do not want racism. want peace and we want to see the rights and interests because some external forces are attempting to seize on national wealth. so as we can see not everyone is in favor of an opposition leader taking over and there have been a lot of comments about when exactly whether venice will be having another election soon to determine this or how things will go but we've seen a lot of very harsh rhetoric from the united states and i mean remains to be seen how we're going to say it will respond and how other countries that are in the mix will. bring this right up to date on the situation in caracas or to rachel blevins in washington d.c. . well dr monro he is of the clear driving

force behind the process it's very important economic interest that is pushing all the sides to you know have a say and two percent of different options on the soil of the united states which. you know the importance of oil is moving with the support of colombia and brazil. to you know have more be more of an influence. player in the region but also the fact that venezuela has made a lot of promises and relationships economically and commercially with countries like russia and china so i think the oil becomes sort of a contest station between the two sides for you know the future translation of venezuela it is a key driver of many of the interests initially. a journalist for us broadcaster n.b.c.

has been asking twitter which media outlet is more believable and b.c. or r.t. the question was posed after a sham report suggested that democrat. was under the wing of the kremlin. reporter refer surprised. here is down to see news x. one truth floating on the russian machine that now appears to be boosting tilsa gathering. here is the debunking of the and b c news reports from the russian state media you tell me what you think is more credible. k.c. you forgot to mention that the experts in which n.b.c. relied for its mccarthyite smearing just got caught fabricating russia data on

behalf of the democrats. don't you think it's extremely dubious to use new knowledge as a source on russian bots six weeks after it was revealed they ran fake russian bots in alabama. and this report is a total embarrassment and disgrace and so are you interviewing the ability of. their allies on totally discredited expert opinion from. n.b.c. are no longer am liable news source. are key contests. left out of pocket is the claim by the us president on fate in syria and iraq saying its remaining territories will be recaptured by next week donald trump made

the statement of a major country terrorism conference in washington d.c. on wednesday it should be formally announced sometime probably next week that we will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate. but i want to wait for the official word and i want to say it too early. well discussing america's recent policy in syria earlier was our correspondent. in tierra shitter. the main question now to the conference was whether the american president will say something new whether the seventy nine members of the u.s. led. coalition would hear something special perhaps ground breaking from donald trump well his main message was that islamic state now holds a tiny percentage of all the land it used to call their caliphate nothing groundbreaking here because previously we heard pretty much identical stuff from

him become another syria like very soon we have just absolutely decimated isis just absolutely obliterated isis in iraq we have one good study says we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly very optimistic mr trump very proud mr trump proud of how he's dealt with make state however things may no longer be going as smooth earlier this week in fact just a couple of days ago a new pentagon report came out and guess what it says in that report. could be in the process of regrouping and the main conclusion of the report is that in just six months the militants could regain the strength that they used to have there in terms of the u.s. in syria and we've seen a lot of to ing and fro ing and you know saying that they're going to withdraw and not gonna throw in less of a quick listen to what was said before i'm going to. now we've won it's time to

come back. because we remain on the ground after the physical defeat of the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that the defeat is under. the knock of the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon. to u.s. officials tell b c news the president reluctantly agreed to keep troops in syria. we are there until the isis territorial caliphate is removed. this conference that we have any further developments from the u.s. have decided to do you know what no one can still say for sure what's going on with this pullout the conference didn't help another important participant of the event was u.s. secretary of state mike and we thought that he could have shed some light on the american plans in this case instead he made a rather vague comments he reassured his coalition partners that america will quote unquote continue to wage alongside them and also he said that the u.s.

army was only in the middle of some sort of tactical change besides that the problem is you was generals have said the mission is not over and that they need to keep going let's not forget that iran is still being quite active in syria so this could be the reason why washington is has it apart from the is there anything else well just before the conference u.s. secretary of state mike was talking about the same old story risks from islamic state and russia these two are being named together and if the americans are perceiving moscow as a threat in the region perhaps again that explains why they are having second thoughts about pulling out. well security and political analyst told us the possible reasons for america's mixed messages on the syria where the us there are three things that i can say about that one that if the pentagon has such strong

intelligence about isis and it can tell you exactly that in six months it can regroup and restart how come it didn't have that intelligence in the first place when i started in the first place if they had this they could have stopped it from the beginning so if they have such strong that they're supposed to send this strong intel to the president and tell him that no it is not yet eradicate and it will take more than a week to eradicate and destroy isis i think that makes sense in a general reasonable way the second point is that this contradiction shows that there is no plan there doesn't seem to be a strategy a clear strategy of the american administration and there are some people in the pentagon who are really annoyed by apparently by the white house stepping in with no experience no knowledge of what's going on in the field and the third thing and that is a very interesting thing that the fact that the americans and the pentagon keeps insisting that isis is there is because it justifies the american involvement in this part of the world the war against terror is a justification for the american presence and american involvement in the affairs

of the countries of the region under the pretext that it's fighting terrorism. or i'll be back in thirty with the news affecting your world today but do stay close tight for another great program it starts and we'll. the sad. thing. not a good. match

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